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... letter was published , or from that on which the col- lection was completed ? But a careful observer will perceive that there are variations between the two issues . The collected volume does BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THACKERAY'S LETTERS . ' not ...
... letter was published , or from that on which the col- lection was completed ? But a careful observer will perceive that there are variations between the two issues . The collected volume does BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THACKERAY'S LETTERS . ' not ...
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... Letters to " The Publisher " -at the Office , 22 , form . The importance and value of this work can hardly be overrated ... Letter . 108. 6d . Two Editions have been at once exhausted , and a Third , unaltered , is now ready . " A ...
... Letters to " The Publisher " -at the Office , 22 , form . The importance and value of this work can hardly be overrated ... Letter . 108. 6d . Two Editions have been at once exhausted , and a Third , unaltered , is now ready . " A ...
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... LETTERS and HISTORICAL ROVALIST COMPOSITION DOCUMENTS . - New Illustrated CATALOGUE of a Choice Collection , post free 6d . , containing Original and Interesting Letters of Cowper , Benjamin Franklin , John Wesley , David Garrick , Lamb ...
... LETTERS and HISTORICAL ROVALIST COMPOSITION DOCUMENTS . - New Illustrated CATALOGUE of a Choice Collection , post free 6d . , containing Original and Interesting Letters of Cowper , Benjamin Franklin , John Wesley , David Garrick , Lamb ...
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... letter to Secretary Cecil , dated " Carlyll , 28 June , 1568 , at myd- nyht , " in reference to the servants in waiting on the Scottish Queen , says : - " Nowe , here are six wayting women , althoe none of reputacion , but Mystress ...
... letter to Secretary Cecil , dated " Carlyll , 28 June , 1568 , at myd- nyht , " in reference to the servants in waiting on the Scottish Queen , says : - " Nowe , here are six wayting women , althoe none of reputacion , but Mystress ...
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... letter to Secretary Cecil , dated Carlyll , 28 June , 1568 , at myd- nyht , " in reference to the servants in waiting on the Scottish Queen , says : — " Nowe , here are six wayting women , althoe none of reputacion , but Mystress Marye ...
... letter to Secretary Cecil , dated Carlyll , 28 June , 1568 , at myd- nyht , " in reference to the servants in waiting on the Scottish Queen , says : — " Nowe , here are six wayting women , althoe none of reputacion , but Mystress Marye ...
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Page 92 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Page 92 - OF all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace, surpassing this — • He giveth His beloved, sleep...
Page 180 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 89 - Yes, Sir : there was another fine passage too, which he struck out : "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over ; for, I found that generally what was new was false.
Page 231 - like ours, where so many words are derived from other languages, there are few modes of instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign.
Page 27 - Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Page 26 - ... with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth.
Page 192 - The Scots, whom God delivered into your hands at Dunbarre, and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases have not wanted physick and chyrurgery. They have not been sold for slaves to perpetual servitude, but for 6 or 7 or 8 yeares, as we do our owne...
Page 316 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 9 - God of the Granite and the Rose ! Soul of the Sparrow and the Bee ! The mighty tide of Being flows Through countless channels, Lord, from Thee. It leaps to life in grass and flowers, Through every grade of being runs, While from Creation's radiant towers Its glory flames in Stars and Suns.